We spoke in class of today’s society and how to relate reality from virtual. There is a fine line nowadays between these two instances. It was much easier to differentiate between the two pre-internet days. Growing up i thought of virtual reality as the next step in Video Games from producers like Nintendo. If I […]
September 2008
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September 15, 2008
September 15, 2008
We had an interesting class discussion last week of the importance of Second Life in our society today. It startled me to realize that SL has it’s own exchange rate. When you can exchange American currency with something in a virtual world, somebody is taking this very seriously. This is something i have respect for, […]
September 12, 2008
Yet another thing to amaze me happened on SL the other day. You can obtain certain smoking apparatuses to do drugs. Your avatar after smoking falls over and appears drunk. I do no know who created the reaction to smoking virtual pot but I have been told that smoking marijuana does not have any kind […]
September 10, 2008
Furthering my experiences in SL have really sparked my interest into this 21st century phenenomenon. I really have not given this virtual world credit because of the manner in which i see these people taking so much time to complete their dreams on SL. I feel they could just use the time to work on […]
September 3, 2008
Artefacts and Politics Langdon Winner argues of many of the modern material tools we affect much more than meet the naked eye. I would tend to agree with him when I see that people are using socializing tools such as facebook to categorize people into what they believe. These people never even had […]
September 3, 2008
Wow, my first day of second-life was certainly an experience. I got to close to somebodies virtual girlfriend and got shot with some type of bubble gun. I had to admit to the person that i would not invade their space again for him to let me go. Who said chivalry was dead. I also […]